Culture in Quarantine

Bringing arts and culture into your home

Perfect 10: Sofia Coppola's movie moments

See if you agree with the director's choices, from contemporary cult classics to some vintage Hollywood greats.

BBC Arts

Sugar: Unflinching drama

A probation office, a prison cell, a homeless shelter... meet three women all ‘doing time’ in very different ways.

BBC iPlayer

BBC Introducing Arts with Gemma Cairney

Episode four: Articulation, Butterflies, Embracing Wild Water and Four

BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC

The 2020 Booker Prize Nominees

Avni Doshi: Burnt Sugar

The shortlistee reads from her novel, a love story about betrayal between a mother and daughter

BBC Two

Brandon Taylor: Real Life

The shortlistee reads from his novel, a study of belonging, desire, grief and overcoming pain

BBC Two

Diane Cook: The New Wilderness

The shortlistee reads from her novel about a mother’s battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change

BBC Two

Douglas Stuart: Shuggie Bain

The shortlistee reads from his novel examining the unsinkable love between a child and flawed parent

BBC Two

Maaza Mengiste: The Shadow King

The shortlistee reads from her novel exploring what it means to be a woman at war

BBC Two

Tsitsi Dangarembga: This Mournable Body

The shortlisted author reads from her novel about a young girl's hope for the future colliding with her daily reality

BBC Two

Animated Thinking

The History of the Hare

The fascinating animated story of one of Britain’s most mysterious and elusive animals

AHRC

Are You Corrupt?

This animation explores intricate social relationships and how they could be abused in Ancient Greece and Rome

AHRC

Through Whose Eyes?

Exploring the role of photography in shaping how we view the history of the Holocaust

AHRC

I Feel Different

Experience the untold stories of autistic girls and women in their own words

AHRC

A Room in Mumbai

How rehousing from slums to high-rises has adversely affected women’s lives in Mumbai

AHRC

The Life and Times of a Witch Bottle

The story of a stoneware flask, from its 17th century manufacture to its use as a ‘witch bottle’ and recent rediscovery

AHRC

Grief & the Pandemic

An animated study of the impact of restrictions on the human emotional experience during the Covid-19 pandemic

AHRC

Writing From the Shadows

This animation explores what writing and publishing can mean for people in prison

AHRC

Focus on Disability

Bartholomew Abominations

Paul Sirett's radical reworking of Ben Jonson's biting satire, reflecting on narrow-minded disability discrimination

BBC Radio 4

Crip Creativity

Music, writing and performances by disabled artists, featuring readings from Jonathan Keeble and Nadia Albina

BBC Radio 3

The Silence Of My Pain

Hannah French explores the hidden disability of chronic pain and the therapeutic nature of music

BBC Radio 3

Zichy, Wittgenstein And Me

Pianist Nicholas McCarthy, who was born without his right hand, explores the treasures of the left-hand piano repertoire

BBC Radio 3

CripTales

Audition

Mat sits in dread in a waiting room reliving some of his best and worst auditions, and unlocks the reason for his fears

BBC Four

The Real Deal

An unexpected friendship means Meg sees things clearly

BBC Four

Thunderbox

A whirlwind romance leaves Sue pregnant. What should she do now?

BBC Four

Hamish

Hamish's new self operated wheelchair offers independence, but heading to the woods presents some rough terrain

BBC Four

Paper Knickers

Will amputation affect Jackie's chance of pursuing her romance?

BBC FOUR

The Shed

She's falling in love with her next-door neighbour. But her carer does not approve

BBC FOUR

More from BBC Arts

Facts and Fiction: The Booker Prize, eight things you need to know

Interesting facts and figures from the last 52 years of the literary honour

Culture in Quarantine

Can you judge a book by its cover?

Take our quiz to see how much your book choices are influenced by clever cover design.

NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD

What can novels tell us about how men and women respond to a crisis?

A new study sheds light on the differences between the books written by men and by women

Novels That Shaped Our World

New Creatives

BBC Introducing Arts with Gemma Cairney

Episode three: Mileage, Ta-ra-abit, Wet & Dry, Nice to See You and South x South East

BBC RADIO 6 Music

Swiped

A dating app in the near future promises to bring people together but old habits die hard

BBC IPLAYER

Screengrabbed

Janina Ramirez introduces a collection of inspiring, beautiful and urgent stories from emerging and established talent

BBC FOUR

Inside Cinema

Nixon's America: A Country Divided

How close did American cinema come to pin-pointing the troubling truths behind the 'silent majority'?

BBC Arts

Dancing Teens

Get into the groove with iconic dance scenes in 1980s cinema

BBC Arts

Hollywood Action Figures

What does the size of an action star's biceps say about cinema and society at large?

BBC Arts

The Novels That Shaped Our World

10 political novels to challenge your views

Stories about the ideas, people and power struggles that shaped worlds

Novels that shaped our world

10 novels about crime and conflict

The impact of war, violence and struggle unite these choices

Novels that shaped our world

10 tales of family and friendship

The good, the bad and the ugly side of our relationships

Novels that shaped our world

10 novels that broke the mould

The characters who break rules and challenge our perceptions of life itself

Novels that shaped our world

10 classic novels about the joy and jeopardy of youth

Exploring the characters growing up and finding their way in the world

Novels that shaped our world

100 Novels That Shaped Our World

Explore the list of 100 novels whose stories have the power to change us

BBC Arts

Made in Lockdown

Swan Lake Bath Ballet

Elite dancers from across the globe create a modern-day Swan Lake from their own bathtubs

Culture in Quarantine

Reconnect: Digital Raving

A theatrical mix of storytelling and live-looped beatboxing from SK Shlomo

Culture in Quarantine

The Soothing Presence of Strangers

A meditation on loneliness, usefulness, and the place a bus route can have in our lives

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Performance: Culture in Quarantine

Untold: Caroline

Revealing personal stories through musical performance from Camerata, and spoken word delivered by Jackie Kay

Manchester Camerata

BBC Young Jazz Musician 2020

A platform for young talented jazz musicians to compete for the title

BBC Four

Frankenstein: How To Make A Monster

Beatboxers re-interpret the story and explore how today’s society creates its own monsters

BBC Four

Galleries, museums & archives: Culture in Quarantine

Luminous: Virtual Gallery Tour

An exhibition from the Shadowlight Artists, a group of seven Oxfordshire artists with learning disabilities

Modern Art Oxford

Heart of the Nation

An animation from a new exhibition exploring the key role migrants play in the NHS

Migration Museum

Black Britain And Beyond

An event exploring the complex histories of black Britishness, celebrating unique and influential cultures

Black Britain and Beyond

Get Creative at Home

Foley Artist

Learn what a Foley artist is, then have a go at making your own soundscape

The Foundling Museum

#GetCreativeAtHome

Search the site for creative activites to do at home, or add activites to listings if you are a creative organisation

Get Creative at Home

Autumn Colour Palette

Make your own colour palette inspired by the colours of autumn

V&A Museum of Childhood

More Arts on BBC iPlayer

The Big Scottish Book Club

Damian Barr speaks to Kate Mosse, Kirsty Wark and Graeme Macrae Burnet, with poetry from Andrés Nicolás Ordorica

BBC Scotland

British Film Premieres Introductions: Lynn + Lucy

Guy Lodge introduces the British film premiere about a lifelong friendship tested by tragedy

BFI

Our favourite books

Ben Miller, Grace Dent, Graham Norton and Desiree Burch reveal their choices to Sara Cox

Between the Covers

More Arts on BBC Sounds

Moving Pictures

Series that takes a long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in incredible detail

BBC Radio 4

Isolation, In Your Words

45 Britons share their stories during the global crisis of 2020

BBC RADIO 3

Tate Modern: Exploding The Canon

Understanding how Tate Modern can not only explode the canon, but redesign the institution in which art is shown

BBC Radio 3

BBC Arts on social media

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More arts across the BBC

Arena

The BBC's multi award-winning arts strand

Free Thinking

The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews

Front Row

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

imagine...

The arts series edited and presented by Alan Yentob

BBC Books

All of the BBC's coverage of the written word in one place

Get Creative

The UK's biggest celebration of creative participation

Inside Cinema

Short films taking you to the heart of the movies

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